Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, March 9, 1957

Swindon Town Plymouth Argyle

HT: 0-2 N.Dougal (11', ??'), J.Cross (13' o.g.)
Attendance:  8,864   Referee:  C.W. Kingston


1
BURTON
2
CROSS
3
HUNT
4
FOUNTAIN
5
DEAR
6
PEMBERY
7
OWEN
8
RICHARDS
9
MICKLEWRIGHT
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY
1
BROWN
2
WILLIAMS
3
JONES
4
LANGMAN
5
ANDERSON
6
HANCOCK
7
BAKER
8
KEARNS
9
WYATT
10
ROBERTSON
11
DOUGAL

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Harry BROWN
1
2
Jim CROSS
                 
Johnny WILLIAMS
2
3
George HUNT
                 
Pat JONES
3
4
Jack FOUNTAIN
                 
Neil LANGMAN
4
5
Gerry DEAR
                 
Peter ANDERSON
5
6
Gordon PEMBERY
                 
David HANCOCK
6
7
Maurice OWEN
                 
George BAKER
7

8
John RICHARDS
                 
Peter KEARNS
8

9
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
                 
Reg WYATT
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
                 
George ROBERTSON
10
11
Arnold DARCY
               
  Neil DOUGAL
11













Results on Saturday, March 9, 1957: League Table

 
  Aldershot 3 - 1 Newport County  
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 3 - 1 Exeter City  
  Brentford 4 - 0 Reading  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 5 - 0 Northampton Town  
  Gillingham 0 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 0 Southampton  
  Millwall 0 - 0 Southend United  
  Shrewsbury Town 4 - 5 Norwich City  
  Swindon Town 0 - 3 Plymouth Argyle  
  Torquay United 3 - 0 Crystal Palace  
  Walsall 1 - 1 Coventry City  
  Watford 0 - 0 Colchester United  

Table as at Saturday, March 9, 1957:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Colchester United 36 19 10 7 72 42 1.71 48 
2 Torquay United 35 18 9 8 70 54 1.30 45 
3 Ipswich Town 35 18 7 10 80 41 1.95 43 
4 Brighton and Hove Albion 36 15 9 12 65 55 1.18 39 
5 Queens Park Rangers 34 15 9 10 49 44 1.11 39 
6 Southampton 33 16 6 11 53 34 1.56 38 
7 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 34 14 10 10 67 46 1.46 38 
8 Walsall 36 13 12 11 68 55 1.24 38 
9 Northampton Town 35 14 8 13 55 51 1.08 36 
10 Shrewsbury Town 34 11 14 9 56 59 0.95 36 
11 Reading 34 14 7 13 61 60 1.02 35 
12 Brentford 34 13 9 12 60 59 1.02 35 
13 Newport County 31 11 11 9 45 41 1.10 33 
14 Aldershot 34 13 7 14 65 71 0.92 33 
15 Gillingham 36 11 11 14 48 61 0.79 33 
16 Millwall 34 13 7 14 52 72 0.72 33 
17 Watford 34 13 6 15 58 59 0.98 32 
18 Southend United 33 11 9 13 49 52 0.94 31 
19 Plymouth Argyle 34 11 7 16 51 60 0.85 29 
20 Exeter City 35 9 10 16 46 60 0.77 28 
21 Crystal Palace 34 8 11 15 44 59 0.75 27 
22 Coventry City 34 9 9 16 48 68 0.71 27 
23 Norwich City 36 7 11 18 51 78 0.65 25 
24 Swindon Town 35 11 3 21 54 86 0.63 25 

Key: Promotion Re-election